Hugging Face Transformers v4.56.1stable Released Sep 04, 2025
Impact Score: 5/10

Hugging Face Transformers: Patch release v4.56.1

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$ python -m pip install 'transformers==4.56.1'
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โšก Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Hugging Face Transformers v4.56.1. Source highlight: Patch release v4.56.1

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๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

  • Fix broken Llama4 accuracy in MoE part (#40609)
  • fix pipeline dtype (#40638)
  • Fix self.dropout_p is not defined for SamAttention/Sam2Attention (#40667)
  • Fix backward compatibility with accelerate in Trainer (#40668)
  • fix broken offline mode when loading tokenizer from hub (#40669)
  • [Glm4.5V] fix vLLM support (#40696)
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# Patch release v4.56.1 This patch most notably fixes an issue with the new `dtype` argument (replacing `torch_dtype`) in pipelines! ## Bug Fixes & Improvements - Fix broken Llama4 accuracy in MoE part (#40609) - fix pipeline dtype (#40638) - Fix self.dropout_p is not defined for SamAttention/Sam2Attention (#40667) - Fix backward compatibility with accelerate in Trainer (#40668) - fix broken offline mode when loading tokenizer from hub (#40669) - [Glm4.5V] fix vLLM support (#40696)